In recent times research concerning the history of collections and collecting strategies of nineteenth-century institutions has enjoyed widespread popularity. The Colloquium "Collecting, Exhibiting and Preserving in Museums of Applied Arts in the Nineteenth Century" will place emphasis on a type of institution that has so far been largely neglected, the museums of applied arts. The papers presented will underline the innovative character of this museum type in the nineteenth century, its influence and interactions as well as its transformation process. Furthermore the conference offers a platform to discuss methodological strategies for the research of museums of applied arts as a collecting institution, not least through transdisciplinary approaches.

    

   

PROGRAM

 

Thursday, April 7, 2016

 

12:00 Arrival and registration

 

12:30 Welcome and introduction

 

12:45

Miklós Székely (Budapest, Hungary):

Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Socially Engaged Acquisition Policy in

an Emerging Regional Capital: The Franz Joseph I Museum of Industry of

Kolozsvár / Cluj Napoca

 

13:45

Regina Höfer (Bonn, Germany):

Museums of Applied Arts in India in Historical Perspective

 

14:45

Isaline Deléderray-Oguey (Neuchâtel, Switzerland):

What is an Industrial Museum or an Art Industrial Museum in Switzerland

(1860–1925)?

 

15:45 Coffee and Tea (provided)

 

16:15

Klára Nemeckova (Dresden, Germany):

Lehrmittel und Exponat – die Lehrmittelsammlung des Dresdner

Kunstgewerbemuseums als flexibles Sammlungskonzept (Teaching Material

and Exhibit – The Collection of Teaching Material in the Dresden Museum

of Decorative Arts As a Flexible Collection Concept)

 

17:15

Keynote Lecture

PD Dr. Martina Griesser-Stermscheg (Technisches Museum Wien /

Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien):

The History of Museum Storage and What We Can Learn From It for Today

   

   

Friday, April 8, 2016

 

9:00

Keynote Lecture

Dr. Andrea Meyer (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany):

Contacts and Conflicts – A Transnational Approach to Museums

 

10:00

Julia Bärnighausen (Florence, Italy):

Browsing the Archive. Photography and the Applied Arts at the

2Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz"

 

11:00

Daniele Galleni (Pisa, Italy):

The Galleria degli Arazzi in Florence: Rediscovery and Fortune of the

Tapestry Between Fashion and Erudition

 

12:00 Coffee and Tea (provided)

 

13:00

Thorsten Henke (Hannover, Germany):

Die Sammlung Friedrich Culemann im Museumskonzept Carl Schuchhardts

(1859–1943) (The Collection Frederik Culemann and the Early Years of

the Kestner-Museum: Carl Schuchhardt and the Idea of a "Kulturmuseum")

 

14:00

Anna Hagdorn (Zurich, Switzerland):

The Museum of Applied Arts of the Nineteenth Century As a Stimulus for

Collecting and Exhibiting in East Asian Art Museums

 

15:00 Event closing

   

    

Conference languages: English and German

 

The colloquium is organised by

Daniela C. Maier and Nora Rudolf

 

Free admission.

We ask for registration: daniela.maier@ikg.unibe.ch

 

With generous support by: Mittelbauvereinigung der Universität Bern